1,245 Deaths today, highest in 8 weeks! Worldometers

[USALiberal]

[Ms. Toad]

1. Longer than that.

Looks to me like the highest deaths since May 27 (when there were 1568 deaths).

(They did a significant death adjustment today - so if you are keeping your own spreadsheet you might want to update. I've only updated back a week and a half, so May 27 comes directly from the Daily Deaths chart.)

[USALiberal]

3. True, 8 weeks! Duh!!! Thanks for correction.

[Ms. Toad]

4. They adjusted numbers all the way back to March 23.

Ugh. I hate adjustment days.

A few hundred deaths previously unreported spread from March 23 to July 28. It moved the day we hit 100,000 to May 22 (From May 27 - Memorial day - it keeps creeping back as they properly account for earlier deaths), and moved the day we hit 150,000 to last Saturday (From Monday, the day we hit it before properly accounting for the earlier deaths)

[captain queeg]

2. Sometimes when I check the numbers I think of the old Saturday cartoon Whacky Races

I look at Florida, Texas especially and think they are jockeying for position. I think NY has already lost the number one spot and although California is right up there in numbers they have a huge population. The trump humping states are fighting for number one.

I’m talking about the US page, but on the world page I can’t help but notice we are the number one shit hole country in the world by a very comfortable margin.

[Blue_true]

6. Texas is starting to see real declines in infections once Abbott got serious about masks.

They seem to be following Arizona’s pattern of declining infections once the governor embraced masks. Even Kemp in Georgia seems to be trying to find a way out of the bind he got into on wearing masks.

Republicans are slow learners.

[Blue_true]

5. No surprise. It will go higher.

Remember, states have been reporting 10,000-15,000 infections per day for almost a month. The deaths in the high hundreds were likely mostly from the first infected people. There are bigger death numbers to come. Florida alone has something like 10,000-14,000 people already hospitalized.